Journal of Physical Chemistry, 2002, V 106, N 15, 18 April.


LETTERS

Conformational Stability of 3-Fluoropropene: A Challenging Problem for Both Theory and Experiment Boris Galabov, Joseph P. Kenny, Henry F. Schaefer III, and James R. Durig pp 3625 - 3628;
FEATURE ARTICLE

Product State Resolved Dynamics of Elementary Reactions Mark Brouard, Patrick O'Keeffe, and Claire Vallance pp 3629 - 3641;
ARTICLES

DYNAMICS AND RELAXATION
Energy-Dependent Quantum-State-Resolved Relaxation of Highly Vibrationally Excited Pyridine (Evib = 36 990-40 200 cm-1) through Collisions with CO2 Jeunghee Park, Ziman Li, Andrew S. Lemoff, Craig Rossi, Michael S. Elioff, and Amy S. Mullin pp 3642 - 3650; Femtosecond Fluorescence Anisotropy Studies of Excited-State Intramolecular Double-Proton Transfer in [2,2'-bipyridyl]-3,3'-diol in Solution P. Toele, H. Zhang, and M. Glasbeek pp 3651 - 3658; Computation of Time-Resolved EPR Spectra of Systems Exhibiting Electron Spin Polarization Complicated by Magnetization Transfer Martin Ja"ger and James R. Norris, Jr. pp 3659 - 3664; Solvent-Dependent Photoinduced Tautomerization of 2-(2'-Hydroxyphenyl)benzoxazole Osama K. Abou-Zied, Ralph Jimenez, Elizabeth H. Z. Thompson, David P. Millar, and Floyd E. Romesberg pp 3665 - 3672; Li + Li2 Dissociation Reaction Using the Self-Consistent Potential and Trajectory Surface Hopping Methods J. M. C. Marques, A. I. Voronin, and A. J. C. Varandas pp 3673 - 3680;
SPECTROSCOPY, GASEOUS CLUSTERS, AND MOLECULAR BEAMS
Synergistic Complexation of Eu3+ by a Polydentate Ligand and a Bidentate Antenna to Obtain Ternary Complexes with High Luminescence Quantum Yields Stephen I. Klink, Gerald A. Hebbink, Lennart Grave, Patrick G. B. Oude Alink, Frank C. J. M. van Veggel, and Martinus H. V. Werts pp 3681 - 3689; Ab Initio Study on the (OCS)2·CO2 van der Waals Trimers H. Valde's and J. A. Sordo pp 3690 - 3701; Geometric and Electronic Structures of Terbium-Silicon Mixed Clusters (TbSin; 6 n 16) M. Ohara, K. Miyajima, A. Pramann, A. Nakajima, and K. Kaya pp 3702 - 3705; Infrared Spectra of Rhodium Hydrides in Solid Argon, Neon, and Deuterium with Supporting Density Functional Calculations Xuefeng Wang and Lester Andrews pp 3706 - 3713; Infrared Matrix Isolation Studies and Ab Initio Calculations of Formhydroxamic Acid Magdalena Sadyka and Zofia Mielke pp 3714 - 3721; Photoisomerization of p-(Dimethylamino)- -chlorostyrene: A Low Temperature Matrix Isolation FTIR Study Nitin Chattopadhyay, Igor Reva, Leszek Lapinski, Rui Fausto, Luis G. Arnaut, and Sebastia~o J. Formosinho pp 3722 - 3726; High-Resolution Excited-State Photoelectron Spectroscopy of the Lower Rydberg States of Jet-Cooled C2H4 and C2D4 R. A. Rijkenberg and W. J. Buma pp 3727 - 3737; Infrared Spectra and Density Functional Theory Calculations of Group V Transition Metal Sulfides Binyong Liang and Lester Andrews pp 3738 - 3743; Infrared Spectra and DFT Calculations for the Gold Hydrides AuH, (H2)AuH, and the AuH3 Transition State Stabilized in (H2)AuH3 Xuefeng Wang and Lester Andrews pp 3744 - 3748; Microwave Spectra of Four New Perfluoromethyl Polyyne Chains: Trifluoropentadiyne, CF3-C C-C C-H, Trifluoroheptatriyne, CF3-C C-C C-C C- H, Tetrafluoropentadiyne, CF3-C C-C C-F, and Trifluoromethylcyanoacetylene, CF3-C C-C N Lu Kang and Stewart E. Novick pp 3749 - 3753; Wave Function of C70 in the Triplet State X. L. R. Dauw, J. Visser, and E. J. J. Groenen pp 3754 - 3758; Two-Dimensional Penning Ionization Electron Spectroscopy of HCl with He*(23S) Atom Kohei Imura, Naoki Kishimoto, and Koichi Ohno pp 3759 - 3765;
KINETICS; ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
Photodissociation of Peroxynitric Acid in the Near-IR Coleen M. Roehl, Sergey A. Nizkorodov, Hui Zhang, Geoffrey A. Blake, and Paul O. Wennberg pp 3766 - 3772; A Radical Chain Mechanism Coupled to Autocatalysis. The Oxidation of N,N- Dimethyl-p-phenylenediamine by Peroxodisulfate Ulrich Nickel, Carlos Vivas Peris, and Ute Ramminger pp 3773 - 3786; New Halogenated Phenylbacteriochlorins and Their Efficiency in Singlet-Oxygen Sensitization Marta Pineiro, A. M. d'A. Rocha Gonsalves, Mariette M. Pereira, Sebastia~o J. Formosinho, and Luis G. Arnaut pp 3787 - 3795; Direct ab Initio Dynamics Studies of the Reactions of H with SiH4-nCln (n = 1-3) Qingzhu Zhang, Shaokun Wang, and Yueshu Gu pp 3796 - 3803; Energy Deposition in SN2 Reaction Products and Kinetic Energy Effects on Reactivity Jianhua Ren and John I. Brauman pp 3804 - 3813; Theoretical Study on the Mechanism of the CH + CH3OH Reaction Xiu-bin Zhang, Jian-jun Liu, Ze-sheng Li, Jing-yao Liu, and Chia-chung Sun pp 3814 - 3818;
MOLECULAR STRUCTURE, BONDING, QUANTUM CHEMISTRY, AND GENERAL THEORY
Theoretical Study of Far-Infrared Spectra of Some Palladium and Platinum Halide Complexes Lin Zhang, Hua Wei, Yu Zhang, Zijian Guo, and Longgen Zhu pp 3819 - 3822; Twist Angles and Rotational Energy Barriers of Biphenyl and Substituted Biphenyls Friedrich Grein pp 3823 - 3827; Theoretical Study of the Structure and Properties of Polyynes and Monocyano- and Dicyanopolyynes: Predictions for Long Chain Compounds Anthony Scemama, Patrick Chaquin, Marie-Claire Gazeau, and Yves Be'nilan pp 3828 - 3837; Excited and Ionized States of p-Benzoquinone and Its Anion Radical: SAC-CI Theoretical Study Yasushi Honda, Masahiko Hada, Masahiro Ehara, and Hiroshi Nakatsuji pp 3838 - 3849; Accurate Structures and Binding Energies for Stacked Uracil Dimers Matthew L. Leininger, Ida M. B. Nielsen, Michael E. Colvin, and Curtis L. Janssen pp 3850 - 3854; Theoretical Studies of Metal Ion Selectivity. 2. DFT Calculations of Complexation Energies of Selected Transition Metal Ions (Co2+, Ni2+, Cu2+, Zn2+, Cd2+, and Hg2+) in Metal-Binding Sites of Metalloproteins Lubomi'r Ruli'ek and Zdenk Havlas pp 3855 - 3866; High Level ab Initio Calculations of Intermolecular Interaction of Propane Dimer: Orientation Dependence of Interaction Energy Seiji Tsuzuki, Tadafumi Uchimaru, Masuhiro Mikami, and Kazutoshi Tanabe pp 3867 - 3872; Theoretical Study of Pyrrolidine: Revised Conformational Energies and Vibrational Assignments Luis Carballeira, Ignacio Pe'rez-Juste, and Christian Van Alsenoy pp 3873 - 3884; Condensed Fukui Functions Derived from Stockholder Charges: Assessment of Their Performance as Local Reactivity Descriptors Julianna Ola'h, C. Van Alsenoy, and A. B. Sannigrahi pp 3885 - 3890; Theoretical Study of Intramolecular Proton Transfer Reactions in Some Thiooxalic Acid Derivatives Eduardo Chamorro, Alejandro Toro-Labbe, and Patricio Fuentealba pp 3891 - 3898; Extracting Experimental Information from Large Matrices. 2. Model-Free Resolution of Absorbance Matrices: M3 Ga'bor Peintler, Istva'n Nagypa'l, Irving R. Epstein, and Kenneth Kustin pp 3899 - 3904; Theoretical Investigation of Titanium Carbide, TiC: X3 +, a1 +, A3 , and b1 States Apostolos Kalemos and Aristides Mavridis pp 3905 - 3908; The Charge Response Kernel with Modified Electrostatic Potential Charge Model Akihiro Morita and Shigeki Kato pp 3909 - 3916; Reaction Modes of Carbonyl Oxide, Dioxirane, and Methylenebis(oxy) with Ethylene: A New Reaction Mechanism Ramon Crehuet, Josep M. Anglada, Dieter Cremer, and Josep M. Bofill pp 3917 - 3929; Multistate Effects in Calculations of the Electronic Coupling Element for Electron Transfer Using the Generalized Mulliken-Hush Method Michael Rust, Jason Lappe, and Robert J. Cave pp 3930 - 3940; Local MP2 Study of Naphthalene, Indole, and 2,3-Benzofuran Dimers Serguei Fomine, Mikhail Tlenkopatchev, Sergio Martinez, and Lioudmila Fomina pp 3941 - 3946; Structures, Rotational Barriers, Thermochemical Properties, and Additivity Groups for 2-Propanol, 2-Chloro-2-propanol and the Corresponding Alkoxy and Hydroxyalkyl Radicals Hongyan Sun and Joseph W. Bozzelli pp 3947 - 3956; Structure, Properties, Thermodynamics, and Isomerization Ability of 9-Acridinones Anna Bouyk, Ludwika Jo'wiak, Agnieszka Wro'blewska, Janusz Rak, and Jerzy Baejowski pp 3957 - 3963; Comparison between Experimental and Theoretical Scales of Electrophilicity Based on Reactivity Indexes Patricia Pe'rez, Arie Aizman, and Renato Contreras pp 3964 - 3966; Rehybridized 1,3-Butadiene Radical Cations: How Far Will a Radical Cation Go To Maintain Conjugation? Jonas Oxgaard and Olaf Wiest pp 3967 - 3974;
GENERAL PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
Thermoanalytic Studies on Template Removal from MeAPO-31 Doped with Various Metals Jan Kornatowski, Gerd Finger, and Dietrich Schultze pp 3975 - 3981; Quenching by Oxygen of the Lowest Singlet and Triplet States of Pyrene and the Efficiency of the Formation of Singlet Oxygen in Liquid Solution under High Pressure Masami Okamoto and Fujio Tanaka pp 3982 - 3990;